The GOD Few Know & Most Are Mad At

Q: What does the Bible say about God's sovereignty?

The Bible teaches that God is sovereign over all creation and salvation, exercising control over every aspect of existence. God's sovereignty is a central theme in Scripture, emphasizing that He reigns supreme over all things. In Deuteronomy 32:39, God declares, 'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.' This passage showcases God's ultimate authority and control over life and death. Throughout the Scriptures, we see that nothing happens without His will, including the actions of nations and individuals. Isaiah 14:24 reinforces this truth, stating, 'The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.' Thus, God's sovereignty extends not only to creation but also to the unfolding of redemptive history, as seen in Romans 8:28-30, where Paul affirms that those God foreknew, He also predestined.

Q: How do we know God's character?

God's character is revealed through Scripture, demonstrating His holiness, justice, and mercy. The Bible provides a clear depiction of God's character, presenting Him as the living and true God. Nahum 1:2-7 describes God as 'jealous' and one who takes vengeance on His adversaries. It emphasizes His wrath against evil while also highlighting His goodness as a stronghold in the day of trouble. Moreover, in Exodus 3:14, when God reveals His name to Moses as 'I AM that I AM,' it signifies His eternal existence, unchanging nature, and absolute sufficiency. Understanding God's character is crucial for believers, as it shapes our view of Him as sovereign, just, and merciful. This knowledge cultivates reverence and motivates us to trust Him in all circumstances, recognizing that He is ultimately in control.

Q: Why is fearing God important for Christians?

Fearing God is essential for Christians as it leads to wisdom, faith, and a deeper relationship with Him. Fearing God is a foundational principle in the life of a believer. Psalm 89:7 states, 'God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints,' underscoring the reverence due to Him. This fear is not one of terror but of awe and respect, recognizing God’s holiness and sovereignty. The more we fear God, the less we will fear man and the things of this world. Proverbs 1:7 affirms that 'the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,' indicating that understanding and wisdom stem from a healthy respect for God. Additionally, this fear cultivates trust and dependency on Him, allowing believers to find peace in His authority. Cultivating a proper fear of God transforms our hearts and enables us to live lives that honor Him.

You can be looking for the little book of Nahum, Nahum. Start at the back of the Old Testament, go back five books, little book of Nahum. This is one of many scriptures few have read and even fewer believe and most hate. That's the title subject tonight, the God of the Bible. Few know him and most hate him. And I'm gonna just dwell on his word and what he says and just say a few things about those who hate him in the end. Read Nahum 1 verses 1 through 7 with me. The Burden of Nineveh, the Book of the Vision of Nahum, the Elkoshite.

God is jealous. The Lord revengeth. The Lord revengeth and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all acquit the wicked. The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind, that's a tornado, and in the storm, the hurricane.

The clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea and maketh it dry. Dryeth up all the rivers, Bashan languisheth, Carmel, the flower of Lebanon languisheth, the mountains quake at him, the hills melt, the earth is burned at his presence. Peter said, when Christ comes, that's what's gonna happen. Yea, the world and all that dwell therein, people, who can stand before his indignation, who can abide in the fierceness of his anger, His fury is poured out like fire. The rocks are thrown down by him. The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble. And he knoweth them that trust in him.

Powerful scripture, as said, another, just one of very, very many scriptures that you won't hear read today, and even fewer people believe. This God, this God, the God of the Bible. The God of the Bible is God. And he's only known from the Bible. He wrote this book. No man wrote the Bible. The Bible, the scripture, is not of any private, personal interpretation.

Holy men spake as a movement of God. The God of the Bible. is the true and living God, the living and true God. Says that over and over and over again. He's called the living and true God. Living as opposed to a dead idol. Living meaning he's the one who created life, sustains life, in him we live. We live and move and God is not a part of your life. People that say that don't know God. In him we live and move and have our being. The God in whose hands our breath is. And all our ways. God of the Bible. I just want to declare him tonight. He must reveal himself. All we can do is just declare what his book says. That's my purpose. In about 30 minutes or so, I want to declare God in 30 minutes.

The living and true God, as he declares himself in the scriptures, as opposed to man's imagination, a made-up God, what man says about God that is in direct opposition to what this book said. I want to glorify God. Now when I speak of God, I'm speaking of Jesus. He is God. He's the Lord God. Just as much God as God the Father. The Holy Spirit is not just some spirit that makes people act this way. He's God. He's sovereign. He does as He will, with whom He will, when He will, because He will. And nobody can say anything about it. Or stop it. Or do anything. He's God. The Holy Spirit. God the Father. God the Son. God the Holy Spirit. These three are one God. I want to glorify God and attribute to Him, as Scripture does, all things, whatever it is, good and evil. God does all things.

All things. Now right now, if the average person were listening to me, the hate would start coming at me. What about you? There is no comfort, there is no peace, there are no answers, there's no anything in a God who's not absolutely God, reigning over everything. The first cause and last of all things. It is the Lord, whatever it is. I want to glorify God and I'm preaching that we may know him better.

He has to reveal himself, but this is what he uses. that we may fear him. We need to learn to fear him more and more and more. The more we fear God, the less we will fear man and things. The more faith we will have. God is greatly to be feared, Psalm 89, seven. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and he is, but even more so. To be had in reverence of all about All of them are about him. I want us to fear him. I'm preaching that we might fear him more, that we might believe him and trust him and bow to his will in all things and find peace and comfort in the fact that God is God.

I'm laughing because it's just, it gives me great joy. There's no subject I would rather stand up here and proclaim. In fact, I'm not supposed to proclaim anything else. That's my purpose. As a preacher. And every preacher. There's no peace for the wicked who reject this God, rebel against him, and don't fear him. God will not allow man to have any peace. Lasting peace. No comfort, but constant fear. David said this, put them in fear, Lord, that the nations might know themselves to be just men. They're not God, Satan's not God, God is God. Put them in fear, and he does, he will.

He will. All right, let's go through chronologically. Go back to Genesis 1. We gotta start where God started though. When you talk about God, who he is, his character, his attributes, his work, God is a great creator. The fact that he's a creator means he's owner of all things. He makes something, you own it. Now can you do with your own what you will? Can anybody tell you what to do? God is the potter. Scripture says this, Jeremiah, Romans 9. We're clay. What can clay say?

Creator, Genesis 1, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. The earth was without form and void, darkness upon the face of the deep. Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water. There you have the Father, there you have the Spirit, and God said, that's the word of God, that's the Son of God, let there be light. That's the light, isn't it?

He's the creator. He made everything out of nothing. God said, and God said, verse nine, and God said, verse 11, and God said, verse 14, and God said, he spoke everything into existence. He created everything how? Out of nothing. Evolution is absurd. Only an idiot and a fool believe that. God said, God spoke everything into existence. He created everything out of nothing by the word of his power, let there be.

He didn't say, would you help me? Would you like to be? He never said that and he still doesn't say it. He says, let there be light. And you won't see the light unless he says, let there be light. You won't live unless God says, live. It's not your work, your choice, or anything to do with. You're dead. The earth was that form and void and could not possibly do anything unless God said so.

This is the God of the Bible. It just begins right out off the bat. Verses 26 and 27, God said, let us make man in our image. Our image? Wait a minute. God is spirit. Yes, he is. But one member of the Godhead is all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Who's that? Jesus Christ.

So many say he didn't pre-exist. You don't know God, do you? You don't know Jesus Christ. He came to his own, his own received him not. He was in the world, the world was made by him. Isn't that what it said? I was gonna turn there, I was gonna turn to Colossians 1, you know this. You're so blessed. Without him was not anything made, it was made. Who? Jesus Christ. He's God.

Creation's all according to the eternal purpose, will, mind, decision. of God. Man can make his little decisions, but it has no bearing on anything whatsoever. God has already decided everything before the world began. Acts 15, 18. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

I said we were going to chronologically go through, but the Lord might collapse the house and we got to see this. Second Timothy 1. Let's just go ahead and declare the end from the beginning. Second Timothy 1. We've got to say something from the outset about the eternal purpose and will of God. Why God made everything. This is it. Second Timothy 1. The reason God made everything, material, visible, world, universal, is to the praise of the glory of his son, Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 1 verse 9, God who hath saved us, who? Saved who? And called us, who? Did what? with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace. Well, when was this purpose made? When did God decide to do all this? Where was it? Who was it with? which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.

This whole thing has everything to do with the eternal saving, redeeming purpose of God Almighty to save worthless sinners by and through and in the Lord Jesus Christ to the praise of the glory of his son. Amen. Forever. And when it's all over, that's what we're gonna be singing about, world without end. That's why he made this man. All right. Let's go back. Okay, let's look at Exodus. Book of Exodus. Exodus. Now many say that God is creator, God is sovereign in creation. Many say that.

But not many say he's sovereign in salvation. I'm telling you, here's the difference between the living and true God, and those who believe Him, and those who know Him, and those preachers who preach Him. That religion across the board They talk about God, they talk about mercy, they talk about grace, they talk about blood, they talk about Jesus dying on a cross and being crucified and being buried and risen again and even call him Lord and all that.

But he said he's done all he can do, the decision is yours. That's what they all say without exception. You've heard them? I just read something. That the decision, the final decision, he's made it possible, he's done all this, he's made salvation possible. He made this offer to all mankind and whoever decides, I decided. That is Satan's big lie that he has perpetrated from the beginning of time. That's what Satan said, I will, God said. He that sitteth in the heavens laughs.

You will what? What have you decided? Everything has been done, is been done, and shall be done according to the eternal decision of God before the world began. And nothing can change one thing. Aren't you glad? Predestinated. I love that word. Love it. Love the truth of it. Love the God who predestined all the time. Isaiah 43, he says, I, even I, am the Lord. Beside me there is no Savior. I have declared and I have saved. Past tense. All right, Exodus 3. He's the eternal, unchanging, self-existent Jehovah. We are Jehovah's Witnesses.

Those people that come to your door, no, they don't believe in Jehovah. No, they don't. They say they do. And in name only, with their lips only, their hearts far from. They don't, first of all, they don't believe Jesus Christ is Jehovah. He said if you, in John 8, 24, he said, if you believe not that I am, you'll die in your sins. That's the name.

They said, who are you? The same I said unto you in the beginning. Who? What? When? To Moses. That was Jesus Christ talking to Moses. Jehovah. The name Jehovah means the eternal self-existent one, independent of, in no need of anything or anyone, self-existent. Jehovah. Look at Exodus 3, look at Exodus 3 verse, I didn't turn there myself. Exodus 3 verse 7, the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people. God has a people, he chose before the world began. That's a fact, isn't it? Yes it is.

And I've heard their cry by reason they're a taskmaster. Who sent Howard Tasman? Who sent these Tasman? Who put them there? God did. I know they're sorry. And I am come down to deliver them out. I am, but it hadn't taken place yet. I am come down to deliver them out. And the hand of the Egyptian and to bring them up out. of the land, into a good land.

I am, all right? Moses asked him in verse 13, who shall I say has sent me? What is your name? Verse 14, God said unto Moses, I am that I am. Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am hath sent me unto you, not the world. To them, he revealed to them, I am. What does that mean? It means he is. Let him be Lord. Hold on, hold on. I am. God wants to say, I am the Savior. God will if you, no, I am. I am, he is, he was, ever shall be God.

Who he is, what he does, how he is. He's not a man. Change him. His purpose doesn't change. His mind doesn't change. His character doesn't change. He doesn't change his mind at all. You can't add to him. You can't take away from him. You can't do anything for him. You can't do anything against him.

I am. Self-existent, independent, in need of nothing or no one to accomplish his purpose, to do what he will. He needs no one. He didn't need anything to help him create the earth. No, no, no. Let there be. Independent, needed no one or nothing. To say, for anyone to say God wants, that's not in the Bible. You won't find that term. God wants you. We want things. That means it's something we don't have, and we want it, and we sure hope we get it. That's not God. God will. He has a will, an all-powerful will. He says, I have spoken it, I will do it. I purposed it, it shall come to pass. That's the God of the past. God doesn't want, anyone says God wants, or God needs, or let God, or make Him this, let Him do that, done all He can do now.

They don't know God. And those are false prophets. Any man that says that? is a false prophet. To the law and to the testimony, Isaiah 820, if they speak not according to my word, if they don't declare the God of this book, there's no light in them. They're in darkness, he said. And everyone that follows them and believes them, they're blind leaders of the blind. They all will fall in a ditch. They all will stand before God and say, we've done this, we've done that. You've done nothing. Cast them out of my presence. All who know God believe he's done it all. Don't know God. He's a living God. Life in Himself. In Him we live. Alright. He's eternal. Unchanging. He said, I am the Lord. I change not. They say, well, that's the God of the Old Testament. Hold on now, that's right in Malachi 3, that's right before the New Testament. That's significant that God, one of the last things He said in the Old Testament, I am the Lord, I change not.

Then in Hebrews 13, 8. And Hebrews begins with saying that Christ is the express image of God, that even God called His Son God. Didn't He? Hebrews 1, those of you who know it. We know God. And he goes all the way over to the end of Hebrews, and he said, Jesus Christ, the same, yesterday, today, and forever. He's, I am, the unchanging God. He doesn't change. That God who's a consuming fire of the Old Testament, in Hebrews 10, 29, he's still a consuming fire, and you read with me. And in 2 Thessalonians 1, it says he's gonna come and destroy, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that believe not the gospel. That's what it said. You know this scripture. You've read this scripture.

Few people do. Few people know them, and if they read them, they don't like it. This is why man has taken the Bible and chopped it up and made his own version of it. This is why there are over a hundred and some translations of the Bible. Because like Jehoiakim of old, who didn't like what Jeremiah was saying, and took him a pen and a knife and said, I don't like that.

We'll take this out. We'll take this out. Till he'd torn the whole thing up and thrown it in the fire. You know what God did? Jeremiah, write another one. Forever, oh Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. And that word is a person. You can't destroy the Bible because the Bible is a person. It's a word, let there be.

He's the sovereign God, Deuteronomy 32. You know when it turned to Deuteronomy 32, don't you? Doesn't who you know it. Deuteronomy 32, our God is the sovereign God. Jesus Christ is sovereign. The Holy Spirit is sovereign. Sovereign God. Deuteronomy 32. You have it? Deuteronomy 32. Verse 39, see now. My dad used to say that to me. My dad was a man of authority. I feared him. And buddy, when he said, you see now, I sat up. Isaiah eight, he said, don't fear their fear now. Listen, fear me.

See now that I, even I am he, there is no God with me. You see that? No little G. See that? Little g-o-d, not capital G, not little g. There's not even anybody that has any power over anything. Any! There's no God, g-o-d, little g, that can do anything.

Do you hear that? The powers that be, everything that is, Satan, we read, had to, Get permission from God to do anything. Satan. Does this make you mad or glad? It makes us exceedingly glad. We've got a hedge about us. He says, I kill. What if we just stopped right there? That's the final answer. Well, so-and-so got cancer and got this and that. God says, I did it. I killed. All souls are mine. I killed.

Job 14, the oldest book. Our days are numbered. The number of our years, our days are with the Lord. Our bounds are set, we cannot pass. That's not fatalism, that's Bible. That's God. I kill. I'm so thankful. Aren't you? And nothing and no one can kill anything or anyone unless God wills it. Unless God said, it's time.

I probably won't have time to go to Psalm 91, but David said, God is, he that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall dwell and abide under the shadow of the Almighty. He's my fortress, he's my high tower. He said, he said, you'll not be afraid for the pestilence. He said the arrow that flies by day. He said a thousand shall fall at thy side, ten thousand at thy right hand.

What's that? Arrows. Bullets. A bullet can't, every bullet that's ever been fired by a gun, even a multi-round, whatever you call those, assault rifle, every single bullet is purposed by God to land where it lands. That's Psalm 91. If you've got a son in the army, or if you've got somebody in law enforcement or whatever, that gives you great peace. That's Psalm 91. Now prove it.

There was another scripture. There was a king named Ahab, evil king. God raised him up because of Israel, their idolatry. Ahab and Jezebel. We've had several like that, presidencies and their wives, haven't we? And God raised them up for the idolatry of this country.

But Ahab and Jezebel, and Ahab was an evil king, and he and Jehoshaphat were together and they were gonna make war against the Assyrians, I forget. But, okay, so Ahab was a coward, and he told Jehoshaphat, you wear my, they're after me, you wear my clothes, I'm gonna hide. He did, he disguised himself, Ahab, they were after Ahab, they wanted to kill Ahab, the Indian. He said to Jehoshaphat, you wear my clothes. Okay, so Ahab's disguised, he's right in the middle of that whole Israeli army, okay, he's back in the back, he ain't in the front, he's scared, he's a coward.

He's a chicken. He's a yellow-bellied. One arrow flew. God had this man shoot an arrow at a venture. I think a boy got him a brand new bow and he didn't get to shoot it and he thought, shoot, I don't want to shoot this thing. So he just shot an arrow up in the air. Hit Ahab. One man died. Why? Because the prophet Jeremiah said so. One bullet, one arrow flew.

That's our God. I'm so glad. We don't have to fear for ourselves or those we love. We trust the Lord. He's sovereign. Deuteronomy 32, let me keep reading. I make alive. He gives life, he takes life. That's what Job said to him. I make alive. And that certainly, absolutely applies, or perhaps more than anything, about the new birth, about salvation, about giving eternal life. God does that.

Who hath he quickened, who were dead? I wound. That means whatever it is that you get, sickness, disease, God is sovereign over every single thing, Barnard used to say, that writhes or wriggles. Not only bullets that fly and bombs, but germs, atoms, molecules.

He made it all. He's in absolute sovereign control of that. God reigns, Jesus Christ reigns over the elements, everything, the wind, the moon, the stars, the wind. You read with me in Nahum, he had his way in the whirlwind. Every destruction, every hurricane, every tornado, God did that. Men and devils, devils cannot do anything and they do his will. The devils do God's will.

Can you believe that? It's so. Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. That's what God said. All things are in his hand. And I'm glad. David said, my times These times we live in, perilous times, aren't they? Fearful times, aren't they? David said, my times are in thy hands. I'm so glad. Oh my.

Isaiah. Isaiah 14. Go over here to Isaiah 14. Oh my, Isaiah. Where are we gonna turn to read in Isaiah? You can just go and put your finger down. This whole book declares our sovereign God. Isaiah 14, look at that. Verse 24, I quoted it, tried to. Isaiah 14, 24, the Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass.

As I have purposed, so shall it stand. 27, the Lord of hosts hath purposed it, Who shall dishonor it? His hand is stretched out. Who's gonna turn it back? Chapter 40, Isaiah 40, look over here. I was gonna say it gets better. It can't get any better than that. But it keeps declaring, it keeps declaring who he is. Isaiah 40, verse six, the voice said, cry. This is what the preacher's to cry, I say, what shall I cry? All flesh is grass. All the goodness thereof is the flower of the field.

Verse nine, O Zion, thou that bringest good tidings, get up unto the high mountain, Jerusalem, that bring good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength. When did preachers start shouting right here? Lift up thy voice, lift it up, be not afraid. Say unto the cities of Judah, behold your God.

Verse 10, the Lord God will come with strong hand. Who's that? Jesus Christ. His arm shall what? Rule. For him. Verse 15, behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket. Verse 17, nations before him as nothing, less than nothing vanity. Who are you gonna liken God to? Verse 22, it is he that sitteth among the circle of the earth, the inhabitants thereof as grasshoppers.

I hope to keep reading. Chapter 43, don't you love chapter 43? This is written to God's people. Turn with me quickly, not gonna be too much longer. Isaiah 43, look at this, verse one. Now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, he that formed thee, O Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by name, thou art mine. And he goes on to say, whatever we go through, It won't hurt you because I, verse 3, I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior.

I gave Egypt. I killed all the firstborn in Egypt. I was going to go, John, we were going to go with Genesis. I knew we wouldn't have time to read all this. But what all he said, or Exodus, what all he said to Pharaoh. What all he said he was going to do. And it goes, keep saying it, Pharaoh hardened his heart, but it says God hardened his heart.

And God, he said, for this purpose, I've raised you up. And Paul quotes that in Romans nine. Show my power, my authority in you. Verse seven. He says to his people, everyone that's called by my name, I have created him, salvations of the Lord, people. It's a new birth, you must be born again. That's John three, which very few people know the subject of John three. It's not verse 16. It's all that Christ said in the beginning of that to a man that was religious and didn't know God. Well, if you will, Nicodemus. No, he said, you must be born again. I have created him for my glory. I have formed him, yay. I have made him. I have. Verse 10, you are my witnesses, saith the Lord.

These are people that God has chosen, called, is elect, revealed himself to, given to Christ in a covenant, that eternal purpose. Christ came to die for them. He didn't come to try to save anybody. He came to save those given to him by the Father before the world began. That's what this book says. He came to save those that were called by His gospel, those whom the Holy Spirit has sent to, to grant repentance and faith. Man has nothing to do with salvation, nothing, no part whatsoever.

It's not His choice, it's not His will, it's not His acceptance, He's dead. God says, I kill, and that's the first thing He's gotta do to you when He saves you, is kill you first and then give you life. Show you, you're dead. Show you, you're blind. Show you, you're dead.

So you can't do nothing without him. It's salvation of the Lord. This is the God of the Bible. Anything more or less than that is not God. You understand that? Surely you do. There's no gray area here. And I'm not gonna answer any curious questions about anybody. I'm declaring what the Bible says.

Paul didn't argue with people, said, well, if it's his will, who can resist his will? If it's his will, then how can he hold us accountable? What did Paul say? Who art thou to reply against God? Just shut up, is what he said. Hath not the potter power over the clay? Shall the thing form say to him that form it? You can't do that. Yes, he can, and he did. That's the God of the Bible. Don't shout, preacher. Don't you wish the world could hear this? They have heard it, hadn't they? God has spoken once or twice.

They're without excuse. Romans 1, I was going to go with it, but they've changed the glory of God. The truth of God, rejected it. Romans 1 says they hate God. That's what it says, doesn't it? You've read it. And these preachers mock God. God is not mocked. No, no, no. In fact, God's gonna do the mocking when it's all over. He's gonna mock me. He said, I'll mock when your fear come. Right?

That's what this book's in. That's this God. If you don't know this God, you're lost. This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only True God. And if your God is someone you had to accept, that's not God. You don't know God. When you find out who God is, you'll fear Him. You'll fall before Him. Who? Jesus Christ. Jesus and I are good buddies. No, He's not either. He's your Lord and Master. You fall at His feet as a dead man. Sue and ask Him, beg Him for mercy. That's the God of the Bible.

Oh, I was gonna have you turn to Daniel 4.35. Nebuchadnezzar found out, didn't he? And all men and women shall find out. Let me just quote it to you.

Daniel 4.35 says this, I, Nebuchadnezzar, he said, I found out all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he doeth, God doeth according to his will, in the army of heaven among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay or stop his hand or say unto him, what doest thou?

That's the God of the Bible. That is your God, our God. Whether we believe him or know him or not, he is God. And if he's merciful and gracious and kind, has chosen us and loves us, he will reveal himself to us. He will reveal his son to us. And we'll bow, we'll repent, we'll believe, we'll call all by his grace, by his word. It is God that worketh in us, both the will and do of his good pleasure.

Thy people shall be willing when? When they decide. In the day of his power, Psalm 110 verse five. That's his book, isn't it? Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causes to approach him. No man can come, Christ said. But he said, come. I know he said that. Make you accountable. But he said, you will not come. And no one would unless he draws it. He's going to get all the glory. That's what this is about. That's why he created everything. That's why he saves anybody for his glory. What about Job?

I'm out of time. Who killed all his camels and his sheep and oxen? Who stole all of them? It says Satan has come to steal, kill, and destroy. Who did it? Who did all that? Asked Job. He said, the Lord did that. Didn't it? Satan said, I can't do anything. You touch him. Satan said to God, you touch him. Just lift your hand. You touch him. And God said, Satan couldn't do anything, couldn't do anything unless God let him. You don't let God do anything. He lets you. This is the God of the map, isn't it?

The Sabaeans, that's Sheba, that's where the Queen of Sheba was from. Well, how did, why did she come to seek the wisdom of Solomon? And these much a heathen, this is good, Kelly. These much a heathen came and destroyed and killed and steal from Sheba with this one woman named Sheba. You remember, you were Gentiles too. Dead, rotten, heathen.

You aren't Jews. Chaldeans, where's that? Ur of the Chaldees? That's where Abraham's from. Heathen, they're all heathen. None of them know God. This is what they'll do. Chaldeans came. The wind blew the house down where all of Job's sons and daughters went. The wind. Who did that? God did. I don't know if Job's family was saved or not.

He makes it sound like they aren't. All they were doing was eating and drinking and feasting, wasn't it? Doesn't it make it sound like that? Our Lord said in Matthew 24, this is the way most people are going to be, eating and drinking, marrying and giving and marrying, until like in the days of Noah, They entered into the ark, his people, his chosen one, and God shut the door. God shut the door. And there's no possibilities of it whatsoever. Eating and drinking. And God killed all ten of his children. God did it.

It's the Lord, isn't it? Do you believe that? What possible peace or comfort could you have if you believe that anybody was responsible for anything and God didn't want it to happen. Who needs a God like that? I believe and the scriptures teaches, I should say it this way, scriptures teaches and bless God I believe that God Almighty has purposed everything and will do according to His will and nothing no one can say anything about or stop it.

And it's all good. The judge of the earth does right. I was going to turn to Ephesians 2. It talks about the people being children of wrath. That's what we were. Angry with God. People hate God. A woman was cutting Mindy's hair, and she started talking to her about this God. And this girl's religious. She goes to that tent out on 220. And Mindy began to declare this God that I'm preaching tonight. And this woman said, I hate your God.

And if you get clear enough, that's what they'll say. And they'll come to the conclusion, that's not my God. We believe two different gods. And it's so. And here's the fact of the matter. Our God is God. Theirs is an idol. Our God's a God of the Bible. Theirs is made up imagination. Our God is a savior, a just God and a savior, does all to save them. And my salvation is completely in his hands.

One scripture and I'll close. Revelation, look at this one, Revelation chapter 11. Revelation 11. I was gonna read Revelation five where all the people, a multitude, no man can number said blessing, honor, glory, powers upon him, to him that sits on the throne, the lamb for every power, glory, honor, blessing, sovereignty, everything, all things belong to him. over and over again, and everybody says, amen. What do you say to all these things?

Amen. I mean, you know, amen means that's the way it is. And amen means it's so, means I believe it. It's so whether we believe it or not. But thank God we do. But in Revelation 11, look at this. Verse 16, the four and 20 elders that sat before God on their seats fell upon their faces. Even in heaven? Yeah, and worship God. Saying, we give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come, because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. We're so thankful. Look at the next line. And the nations were angry.

Doesn't change God. And if you believe this God, if you believe this God and Christ, who is God, you're so blessed. Flesh and blood didn't reveal this to you. that the Father in heaven. That means you're elect, you're chosen, you're called, you're redeemed, you're given to Christ, that Christ is purposed to save you, God is purposed to save you, and God said, I've spoken it, I've purposed it, I'll do it. It's done, and you can't undo it. Isn't that good? All right, stand with me.

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